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September 24, 2009 04:04:45pm |
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Re: Historical Archive for service and operators manuals |
Gerry,
Good speed on what sounds like a worthy and worthwhile project.
> well over 90 % of the materials before 1989 were either not copyrighted
You are right, anything prior to 1989 had to have a Copyright (C) notice to be considered copyright - but after 1989 it is optional and everything is copyright by default.
FWIW I saw this example of someone posting an entire manual (Copyright Honda 1993) "for my friends" under Fair Use, which is pretty dubious! Post first and wait for a take down notice is becoming a more common strategy.
http://bill.laudeman.com/helix/manual/index.htmlStephen
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September 24, 2009 06:20:25pm |
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Re: Historical Archive for service and operators manuals |
Stephen,
It gets even better; before 1964; even if it had a copyright notice, it had to also be registered; no copyright registration within one year of notice; no copyright. This trick was very common with comic books and pulps, they never filed copyright registrations. I havs many hundreds of the pulps and comics waiting to scan; to make it easier I slice them apart and then donate them to collectors when I am finsihed; but I can do a 100 page pulp in less than half an hour this way with the scanners which I have. These are the pages which I am talking about:
http://www.archive.org/details/farmingequipmentmanualsI am working on several other pages for appliances, tools, electronic equipment, etc. ... .
Gerry
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